ORIGINAL: thndrchiken
Pa resident hunting license is $20 and nonresident is $101. Resident doe permit $6 nonresident $26. 500% increase in fees. Who do you think is putting more money forth into the game commission or dnr pots and local economy, the resident or nonresident? Not to mention that muzzleloader and archery stamps are at almost a 100% increase over residents.
Wow, that sounds cheap! In Montana a resident elk license is $16 and a non-resident is $593! That's 3,600% more! And that's if you go for a general license that you have to win in a drawing because there are more people applying for them than they have licenses. If you go for a guaranteed license through an outfitter they are $1k and you have to hire the outfitter.
That doesn't count any added benefit that the non-resident hunters bring into the local economy in hotels, meals, etc.
If you do a little work and add the number of licenses up and multiply it by the fees involved the non-resident hunting licenses account for a large % of the state of Montana's entire fish and game budget. It would require doubling or tripling the resident license costs to make up the shortfall.